Online Education Blog

Academic inflation is hitting every generation of graduating high school students harder and harder. While the bachelor degree was once considered a prestigious investment, it now is the new base quota for pretty much every kind of professional job out there. At the very least, students are pressured to attend community college or a vocational [...]

Most businesses are still suffering and are putting together recession-fueled sales, packages, or other financial incentives in order to attract increasingly tight-fisted customers. Those who are laid off are frequently turning to higher education as a worthy way to spend their free time, resulting in record enrollment numbers.

Now, even schools are participating in the recession giveaway: American Sentinel University (ASU) is aware that lean times will continue and is offering a Kindle 2, a Dell netbook, or a bonus credit hour for students who enroll in their online classes by August 27th.

Middle-aged, and older than middle-aged, individuals benefit greatly from the flexibility of online education. Distance learning provides the flexibility to work around a work schedule, and the convenience of school on your laptop so that you can take your classroom along during travel. This is the hype that you have heard about online education wherever [...]